Olivia look stunned and Lisa almost choked on her cookie at the openness of Millie's question. Neither knew how to react to it and Millie just looked at them both and chuckled.
"What? You didn't think I could tell? I can see you two love each other easily. You're so comfortable together."
"We look like lesbians to you, Millie?"
"Yes, Lisa, you look like lesbians to me. There's nothing wrong if you are, more power to you, but it's not hard to see. You were standing at the door holding hands behind Walter before you came in and when I told you you could sit any where, you took the seat closest to Olivia. I could tell you were more than just good friends. It's okay, you both look like you're guilty as sin though and it's so cute."
"I, we, well...no, I mean yes we're friends and everything, but we're not really lesbians or anything."
"Oh Ollie, you absolutely suck at lying so stop already. Yes Millie, we just became lesbians. There, it's said, so deal with it."
Lisa gave Olivia a look of open defiance to her feeble attempt at denying it. She motioned for her to continue speaking with Millie and said nothing else. Olivia turned back to Millie and she was smiling lasciviously.
"I can see who's the top in this one."
"Wow Millie, you seem to be quite up on all this lesbian stuff. I didn't even know what a top or bottom was until a couple of years ago."
"I said I tried it once dear. I didn't say I stopped liking it. It was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life actually. How could I stop liking something like that? Just like love."
"Yeah, I guess so. So, only the one time? You didn't want to do it again?"
"Oh of course I did. Beth didn't. She was so scared and didn't want to do it any more."
"So she didn't like it?"
"Oh no. She loved it, that was the problem. The bed was soaking with her, she liked it so much, me too. She loved bringing me pleasures over and over. We spent the whole day and night doing it. She was afraid she wouldn't like men anymore, that's why we stopped."
"Wow, just wow. You blow me away, Aunt Millie. Lisa and I just started a few days ago. We've been friends since we were six and we just started making love together."
"Livy got to you, didn't she? I hear tell of lots of girls and women who dared get close to her and not come away talking about being sexually excited."
"Were you ever excited by her?"
"I think she tried once, but she feels more inclined to want to cuddle with me instead. I'm surprised she hasn't been mean to you, considering how much you look like her mother. You do know she killed her?"
"What?"
Olivia and Lisa were stunned and shocked at the announcement.
"She's the one that pushed her down the stairs. She told me one night, as we were sitting on the settee one night before bed. Did it for beating her and Josie so bad and not caring that she died. Told her that it was better Josie was dead and no more of the devil's sinning. In all honesty, it was horrible what she did to them. Livy said she was beaten everywhere her mother could hit her and she wanted it to hurt most between her legs. I've talked to her often about it."
"You used to go there often?"
"Oh yes, most nights I'd drop by and sit with her for a spell and just be with her and keep her company. I had Joe Cole keep the room clean and decent for her and we'd enjoy an hour or two together."
"You mean Joe, the handyman that takes care of the place? He knows about Livy too? He did ask if I met her or not and I said no, even though I did. So Livy talks to him too?"
"Oh yes. Livy thinks of him like a father figure in a way. He's been there so long and he's not spooked by it all, her being a ghost. Get quite used to it after a while and the idea of it being something scary seems silly."
"Yeah, we noticed that too. All those ghost stories and movies, making us think one thing and then when we face the real thing, it's nothing like that at all."
"No, it's not, is it? So, what do you want to do with the place?"
"I was thinking of a bed and breakfast spa. That way it pays for itself and makes me money."
"Lovely, It's a good home to do it with. Plenty of rooms and space. I think Captain Masters was hoping for a large family when he had the place built."
"It sure looks like it could hold a dozen kids. It'll hold enough guests, that's what I'm hoping for."
"Well, poor soul got one and lost her and lost his wife right after. I have a few trunks of Victoria's things in the attic. No idea what's in them. Never opened any. Don't have the keys, so I haven't had much desire to get up to the attic and try. It takes a lot to get this old ass up any stairs these days."
The girls had to laugh at Millie's openness in speaking and her candour in talking about things.
"I found a bunch of keys, well, Livy showed me where they were and they opened some of the trunks and locks in my attic. I wonder if any of them will work?"
"Only one way to find out then, isn't there?"
"You want to do it now?"
"Do you have them with you?"
"No, they're back at the house. Do you want me to get them now?"
"No, no. Come back tomorrow, Walter goes to town all day, so we'll have all the time in the world to go through them, if you have the right keys."
"Guess we'll keep our fingers crossed. Aunt Millie, What happened to Victoria's friend Heather Monroe? All the papers said was, she disappeared without a trace. Surely there was something to give some kind of clue to know what happened."
"No one knows, honestly. They did a search the night she went missing and all the next few days, hundreds of people searched every where for her. No one came into town and no one left, so they were all at a loss to explain it. She just seemed to vanish into thin air without a trace."
"That's just so weird. That never happens like that."
"You think something happened, Lisa?"
